A Pair of Lunatics, or Reflections of Elsinore at the End of The World

Adapted by Zoe Lesser with original text by W.R. Walkes

Produced by Donterrio Johnson in collaboration with Pride Arts

The two sentence summary of A Pair of Lunatics by Dramatic Publishing states: "He and She meet for the first time in a lunatic asylum and each mistakes the other for an inmate. An old stand-by that's always fun!" This summary, however succinct it may be, forces us to question, what is funny about mistaking someone for a "lunatic"? What even is a "lunatic"?

In this adaptation of WR Walkes's play, we break open, investigate, and explode this play's grasp of "lunacy". In a time in which the future of live performance is uncertain, this staged adaptation takes place in a desert with two actors grasping at the straws of their own sanity and explores how the stories we tell ourselves somehow persevere.